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Evelyn Amelia Blunt

High Concept

Black ops Cleaner indentured to the Summer Court

Invoke
 Favours, status, information or help related to the Cleaners, her army background or the fae
Compel
Trouble related to the above. Superiors giving orders, Summer court patron calling in a favour, etc.
Tag
 Superiors giving orders, Summer Court patron leaning on her, reluctance to go up against either

Theme

Conflicted loyalties

Invoke:
Strength of will, desire to succeed in a goal related to loyalties
Compel:
Trouble related to loyalties; choosing between them, conflicting goals
Tag:
Threats, offers of help, blackmail

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Posted 05 October 2008 † Louisa McGuinness § ‡ Comments (1) °

Linden Elswyth Isen Xajorkith Thorn

Linden Elswyth Isen Xajorkith Thorn

High Concept : Renegade Arcane Attorney
An experienced white council wizard who now works to help those mortals who need or are caught up in deals with supernatural entities as a mediator and negotiator. This is complicated by his membership in the Order of St Guthlac, a group of dedicated religious monster hunters.
Thorn is a dedicated idealist and humanitarian and has a deep mistrust of the white council and is haunted by the things he saw in his time at Bletchley park trying to use an entity from beyond to assist in the war effort.. He has only recently come to terms with that.

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Posted 22 September 2008 † Robin Poole § Gaming ‡ Comments (0) °

Bethany Dina Lakshmi Smith

Bethany’s a white court vampire, DJ and pirate radio broadcaster.  She’s changed a fair amount from my last interation, most notably in High concept and theme.  She’s still a bit of a work in progress, so be warned.

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Posted 12 September 2008 † Seana McGuinness § ‡ Comments (2) °

Comments and thoughts on the rules so far

Including a large section on white court vampires, one of my current interests.  It’s certainly possible I’m missing some fairly important stuff here, but these are my thoughts so far.  Click on the more tag if you dare:

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Posted 05 September 2008 † Seana McGuinness § ‡ Comments (2) °

Burning Milton Keynes (Part 1)

Note: It’s getting late, so this is only part 1 of the city creation session write-up for the playtest. I’ll try to type the rest up tomorrow.

We had our city burning session last Thursday, and Milton Keynes has now entered the Dresdenverse. These notes are still a work in progress, as we’re all still researching elements, and they do need to be cleaned up and simplified. We also need to actually name the NPCs, as opposed to just saying who they are, but that will come later.

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Posted 10 August 2008 † Scott Dorward § Milton Keynes ‡ Comments (0) °

So, Milton Keynes…

From the initial email I received, it looks like part of the Dresden Files playtest is going to involve city creation. While I’ve lived in a lot of different cities over the years — Hong Kong, Geneva, New York, London and, um, Dundee — I’m leaning towards using Milton Keynes for the playtest. No, really. Hear me out.

For one thing, MK is the easy option: it’s where I’ve lived for the last seventeen years, and it’s the one shared place that everyone in the Thursday night group knows well, so coming up with details of life here will be pretty painless. Also, more importantly, Milton Keynes is a bloody strange town and making weird stuff happen here will be a doddle.

If you’ve never heard of Milton Keynes, haven’t been here or have only passed through for long enough to get lost and complain about all the roundabouts, here’s a quick guide to the things that I think make MK such a good candidate.

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Posted 26 July 2008 † Scott Dorward § Milton Keynes ‡ Comments (5) °

Good news, and an excuse to start a blog

My Thursday night gaming group applied to playtest the upcoming Dresden Files RPG a few months ago. We’d played Spirit of the Century together for about a year and all fell in love with the FATE 3 mechanics. As four out of the five of us were also fans of the Dresden Files novels (Matt hasn’t read them), the playtest sounded like very much our kind of thing.

Well, today I received the mail I’d been hoping for, and we’re amongst the next batch of playtesters! Yay!

One of the stipulations of playtesting the game is to write about the experience in public. Well, this is where it will all be happening. I’ve had Wordpress installed on my server for ages, but never actually had anything interesting enough to say with it until now.

Assuming we have the game materials in time then the current plan is to start doing stuff with them two weeks today (the 7th of August, if I can drive my calendar properly). Damn, I’m looking forward to this!

Posted 24 July 2008 † Scott Dorward § ‡ Comments (0) °